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LONDON: Anti-Islam activist Tommy Robinson has instructed the UK Excessive Court docket how he frittered £100,000 ($124,353) on a playing binge after receiving a £600,000 libel invoice for shedding a case introduced by a young person over a bullying video.

The English Defence League founder, whose actual title is Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, was efficiently sued by Syrian refugee Jamal Hijazi final 12 months after a video of the then 15-year-old scholar being assaulted at his college within the north of England went viral.

Robinson declared chapter 4 months on from being ordered to pay Hijazi £100,000 in compensation and authorized prices, which jumped from £43,293 in 2020 to an estimated £500,000 after Robinson did not pay and Hijazi’s legal professionals efficiently utilized for an order requiring him to return to court docket and reply questions on his funds.

Nonetheless, claiming he lacks the funds to satisfy the cost, Robinson yesterday instructed the court docket how he offered a property earlier than utilizing the proceeds for playing, whereas additionally claiming that he owed an analogous quantity to HM Income and Customs.

Requested a few declare in his 2009 e book “Enemy of the State” during which he mentioned he owned seven homes, however that six had been in his spouse’s title, Robinson mentioned this was unfaithful, telling the court docket: “I like to provide off that I’m a profitable man when I’m not”.

Hijazi’s declare targeted on feedback Robinson made in relation to the bullying video, posting in two subsequent Fb movies that Hijazi was “not harmless” and including that he “violently attacked younger English women in his college.”

Robinson will once more come earlier than the court docket in August to find out if he dedicated contempt of court docket by lacking a listening to in March, which he put right down to psychological well being points he was contending with after being harassed.